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Yesterday we had a 45-minute addition to our already busy schedule: a walk and talk through Kayam Farm. It’s small — a few acres of vegetables and fruit and an acre of pasture for goats and chickens. …

The shochet has come to do his workshop. And he said, no, one absolutely does not say Shehecheyanu over an occurrence that involves death. (See “Small Deaths” where I raised that question over a year …

What brachah (blessing, a Jewish prayer-form recognizing the presence of blessings in our lives and acknowledging that their source is outside of us) do you say upon taking your first shower in water …